In this episode, as President Biden address the U.N. for the first time since taking office, we revisit a conversation from August about the climate’s "unprecedented" state and Biden’s big goals toward repairing it. Can his agenda succeed?

How can vaccine mandates effectively be enforced across the country? What precedent is there in history and law? And how do Americans and business owners feel about President Biden's executive orders mandating immunization? 

• Biden announces sweeping new vaccine mandates for businesses, federal workers
• Biden’s ratings sag and workers split on vaccine mandates, Post-ABC poll finds

How much power should the president have to act unilaterally on drone strikes? And how will that question define a new era of U.S. warfare? Plus, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) weighs in on the balance between the president and Congress on war powers. 

• Biden vowed a smooth exit from Afghanistan. Now what?
• Thousands have been evacuated from Afghanistan. Where will they go?

The Biden administration faces a big challenge as they try to resettle Afghanistan refugees, and while also ensuring each person arriving to the U.S. undergoes significant security checks. The political debate around what happens next has started to heat up.

• Biden vowed a smooth exit from Afghanistan. Now what?
• Biden headed for divisive debate over resettlement of Afghanistan refugees
• Americans prepare to welcome thousands of Afghan refugees, even as political rhetoric heats up

Biden sold himself as the experienced leader to undo Trump’s foreign policy missteps. But his push to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan and the ensuing chaos has called that claim into question. Is this moment a test for Biden? And is he passing?

• Biden’s promise to restore competence to the presidency is undercut by chaos in Afghanistan
• Post Reports: A disastrous American exit
• Biden says ‘America is back’ on the world stage. Is it?

Climate legislation moves forward as a U.N. report warns that humans have pushed the climate into "unprecedented" territory unless greenhouse gas pollution falls dramatically. President Biden has big goals to cut that pollution. Will his agenda succeed?

• Tracking Biden’s environmental actions

• ‘How to Flip the House’ series 
• Not the'normal' Washington Biden promised
• How a voting law ignited a culture war

• Republicans voice opposition to Jan. 6 investigation as police officers call for accountability
• Will Trump stop Congress from obtaining documents and testimonies?
• What happens when a president asserts executive privilege?